If you limit office to two terms, you guarantee that about half of your incumbents will be Lame Ducks. Bad enough in the WH, but half a legislative body, maybe both legislative bodies, being unaccountable to the voters is just dumb politics.
The need is for an effective and wieldy way for the electorate to terminate a lose cannon. Considering that some states actually have statutes forbidding impeachment (like NY) should be as much of a warning to the electorate as assaults against the BOR.
Everybody wants to change the method of governing and electing, everybody thinks the system is bad and they have a viable answer. They sound like the Communists; who think they can make it work because they're smarter than the ones who failed. They keep trying to make the same thing stop failing by doing it again in the some minutely better way. That's insanity.
The system we have is not perfect; and the simple fact is that humans have never, maybe will never, evolve a system of governance that even vaguely resembles perfection.
Like they say, maybe money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place. The same is true of the American Constitution, and American way of governance.
You can 'improve' a thing until is does nothing well, some things mediocre, and far too many things atrociously. That's where the Communists went wrong, and also where those sectors of the country that endeavor to emulate Communism go from wrong to worse. They think that their basic premise is lofty and wise, and all hey really need to do is to tweak and reemphasize the process differently. But the boat doesn't have holes, the entire bottom of the boat was open to the sea to begin with.
We know who that is.
That's also where the extremists want the rest of us to go.
In a Pig's Eye...
The problem isn't the system. Its the people who jump onboard with the purpose of perverting it right from their start. Without a means to terminate those loose cannons, this problem will not improve, will most likely sag into desperation and insane excess. These same people already reject the concept that the electoral system is an acceptable means to enact self-governance. They are already in a state of insurrection.
Courage and commitment are needed both inside and outside government, and it's sorely lacking in both sectors.
This is not going to go away without some form of rectification that is currently outside the means available to the electorate through the electoral system. Martial law? I doubt it; there are more problems than solutions there.
McSally sounds good. She has a record that includes pluses. I voted for her; but then again, I voted for McCain, too. I'm simply not sure about her or the others, I do not have enough experience here in Arizona to form an intelligent choice. Maybe the thing I'm not sure about after all of this is my own judgement. Got to work on that.
The problem, as I see it, is that we keep expecting politicians to conform to our way of thinking. If they were true to our way of thinking, either they wouldn't be politicians, or we would. Th concepts don't compare.
Many of the folks who will discuss politics here in SE are Liberals to begin with; the Conservatives are playing their cards closer to their chests. I think they are like me, disgusted that they helped elect McCain, and now they just don't trust their own judgement so clearly.
That's not a winning strategy.
I will not debate the merits of individual candidates here on The 'Hide; that's not a valid, viable topic.
It's a crapshoot; but before we dismiss it, we need to stop jumping around from camp to camp. We need make the honest effort to stay with a plan long enough to allow it to succeed of fail on its own merits. It may not be a winning plan, no plan is entirely successful, but no plan can succeed when it gets abandoned in midstream.
Stay the course. MAGA. Don't change the system; change out the people who put their entire purpose into perverting it. Thigs are ehating up for teh midterms. It took a humongous effort just to get where we are. We need keep that momentum and add to it.
The only ones who can drain the Swamp are we folks. We need to do as well as we already did, and also up the effort, as well; because the ante just went up, too. Last time, it was for mostly the White House, clouting the Arkansas Succubus into her natural element, the storm drain. This time it's about enabling the actual President, and not the Zombie Residue, to prevail in the Congressional Houses too.
Snooze and lose; no pain, no gain.
Greg
